So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Something or someone is always waving goodbye.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.